Brian D'Oliveira

On 8/10/2023 at 6:13 PM, locrian said:

On 8/10/2023 at 5:58 PM, Kirean said:

Works for me at the moment.

However, I think I had to reinstall their whole player some time ago to get it to work properly. 

And as someone who is quite new to virtual instruments etc... all I can say is that everyone having their own player/downloader that requires you to install a ton of shit (including but not limited to all kinds of extra DRM software) is probably the biggest thing I loathe the most about this thing. Just bloat, bloat, bloat.

Really dig Mntras' sounds though.

@Kirean yeah it’s not easy to develop complex instruments that need all kinds of data, but I do very much understand and that is exactly why we built Mndala 2 to be the way it is. It’s just one app/engine that runs all, self downloads new instruments and samples and loads them, and does not put a bunch of weird  DRM hidden files in your computer.  And glad you dig our sounds! :)

@locrian yesterday the server was nearly melted down by the massive amount of downloads for Mirage, but any issues should be good, and if not please do reach out to support and we will make sure to get you sorted out :)

On 10/26/2022 at 4:16 PM, Zolton said:

I think both the LE and CE versions are new, and meant to work in Mndala 2. The original UDW, with no extension, was for v1, and seems to be fully separate.

I'm still having issues with v2 personally -- different than the ones I described in the linked thread above, now that I've updated to Mndala 2.05, but still blocking in terms of installation / functionality.

I opened a ticket with support to get advice about Rasa and UDW (LE) working in v2, but haven't heard back yet since the auto-response saying they usually respond within 24 hours and with a link to their ticket system online. It'll be 48 hours since that email soon, at which point I may reply to let them know my Mntra login info doesn't work to access their ticket system and trying to register there as a new user just reloads a blank reg page with no error message or instructions.

It's a journey.

@Zolton Sorry to hear that you are having issues and that you had not heard from the team within a reasonable amount of time! Though not an excuse the team has been beyond crunched with the massive influx of new users and still getting the updates out as promised. I have also revamped our support system massively so now its way more efficient than the system we had running where we could not even live chat ( yes its 2022! ) . So please feel free to send a chat via the widget on our site mentioning my name and I will be more than happy to personally help you with whatever help or questions you may have.

On 10/12/2022 at 8:20 PM, abacab said:

I'm OK with the UI, and some of the sounds are interesting. But I prefer the Soundpaint UI as far as being able to mix any samples in the collection with any other samples, including my own. I own the Atma, Frcture, and Ultrasonic Death Whistle libraries from Mntra.

The MNDALA UI only allows you to select samples from within the current selected library. They need to improve on that.

@abacab this is definitely in our roadmap ( with extensive additional controls ). We would have loved to roll it out already but we had to focus on core features in order to be able to ship within a reasonable time frame

@MusicMan We also noticed the wrong info being listed and have informed them accordingly, here is its page with the accurate info for your reference https://www.mntra.io/product/udw-le/ . 

 UDW-LE is a teaser to the newly coming  UDW-CE ( Limited Collectors edition coming this next week ) and the updated 1.0 - 2.0 official UDW versions. as you have pointed out @abacab there are only 6 sample maps within LE and about the same number of presets as the 1.0 original version, which for the 'price tag' is still of great value and useful especially if you take it further sound designing with the new available features of MNDALA 2.0. The paid products will obviously have more sample maps and presets given their pricing, and I can confidently say that whomever does already own the 1.0 version will be very happy once the new 2.0 official version is released ( I am guilty of being obsessed with wanting to make this new version the defacto unparalleled Death Whistle instrument ever 🤣 ) .

1 hour ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

Thanks, Brian.

I do have other issues with Cubase, so the problem could be on my end.

I just found a workaround by loading up MNDALA in Unify.   The original MNDALA works fine, but with 2.0, I can't see the full visual interface. 

It

It works as an instrument, but I can only see a quarter of the UI, which is a shame because your visuals are so great.
You could check it out with the free version of Unify to see if you also see the problem.

https://www.pluginguru.com/products/unify-demo/

If there is an issue, it's worth fixing as a  lot of people like to use Unify, and it would be a cool way to layer a bunch of Mntra instruments and save as presets.

I'll make a Mntra template in Cubase and keep fooling around with this.  As I said, I like your company a lot.  You make very unique instruments and deserve our support.

 

@Reid Rosefelt I always prefer to do support via emails so that it does not bog up the discussion, but try first opening it without unify and under 'settings' scale it down ( maybe 50% )and then open it again. That might just do the trick

11 minutes ago, Anxiousmofo said:

I look forward to the further development, Brian.  I hope MPE support is on the roadmap, as well.

@Anxiousmofo MPE has been definitely been in our minds and though I wanted to roll this out from the start with 2.0 we had to focus on making sure the core features were rock solid stable, but this will definitely come some time in the future.

3 minutes ago, Zolton said:

Hi Brian -- 

Thanks very much for letting me/us know! It's quite possible I don't have the latest point release of Mndala installed, so I'll grab that, uninstall and start from scratch. It sounds like things may go much more smoothly now.

As I mentioned in a later post, I'm a big fan of the engine and the sound, so best of luck with getting all of the pieces in place. It's a little tricky for both users and developers when the roadmap is somewhat unpredictable, so I really appreciate the info and communication here and elsewhere. I've put a couple of recent v1 library purchases "on hold" for the moment, but it'll be fantastic to try everything out together in v2 when available. Cheers.

@Zolton Thank you for the good vibes! The team has been working extremely hard and if there is anything whatsoever we are around and happy to help and figure out whatever might come up

15 hours ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

I like the Mntra stuff a lot, but MNDALA keeps crashing Cubase for me.   Even 2.0.  

This is a company I would love if they were Kontakt.   I guess I'll keep collecting freebies and hope MNDALA becomes stable for me.  It seems to work fine for other people. 

@Reid Rosefelt we tried looking into building what we envisioned with Kontakt  and its basically impossible, so we instead chose the (extremely hard ) route and build MNDALA from scratch. The features we have now built with the newly released 2.0 are just the tip of the iceberg of many exciting developments in our development roadmap that will now be possible and that we can't wait to start sharing in the near future.

As for your Cubase trouble, I just literally delivered two major series using both Cubase and Nuendo with extensive MNDALA 2.0 instruments within, and it worked just fine, so please do feel free to reach out via our support and mention me and I will personally go over this to see what could be the issue.

18 hours ago, Zolton said:

I happened to stumble on this while browsing APD, but haven't seen the freebie listed anywhere that I recall:

https://audioplugin.deals/ultrasonic-death-whistle-by-mntra-instruments/

On the one hand, a nice pickup if you're collecting Mndala instruments, like the Huracan free-with-purchase from PB last month.

On the other hand, the Mntra ecosystem seems to still be a tangled mess right now. I've gone through the password reset that lets owners of Mndala v1 libs log into the site (and eventually get the libs ported over to v2, I'm told).

But loading Mndala v2 in Cakewalk, I can install Huracan but not the free Rasa library that comes with it (error connecting to server, even in the same session where Huracan installed). In the plugin, Huracan perpetually says an update is available, even if just updated, and the UDW above comes from APD with instructions for installing in v2 which say:

 Trying to enter the license key in-app gives a "server might be down" message and no other progress, though three seemingly-failed attempts have created three records in the "Orders" section of my Mntra account on the website -- each with a license key containing the string "UDW", but no product listed in the record. Basically, it's all higgledy-piggledy, so far as I can see.

Still, I'd had my eye on UDW, and perhaps at some point everything will be sorted and usable in Mndala v2. Maybe UDW is currently only compatible with v1, which means it's APD's install info that's wonky in this instance. At any rate, if interested, I'd advise to pick this up and stash it until the dust settles. Hopefully soon-ish.

@Zolton Brian here from MNTRA,  we had a temporary hiccup with our server service last night as you tried to do this which was resolved steadfastly and you should have received an updated order and the ability to download. As for your other issues, are you using MNDALA 2.0.5 ? If not I highly suggest that you install, and it should be a simple matter of de-installing Rasa and Huracan and then re-download them. And just sharing some insights, hosting your own hosting services that all work to allow for dead simple downloads and installs within a plugin is definitely not for the faint of heart, especially for such a small team as ours, but the unpredictable surprises have been dealt with and other than this small hiccup the feature has been working very smoothly with this latest update.

And yes the official version full version of UDW is still V1, we are in the midst of updating and we are very excited of the final version. I have seen complaints and frustration as to our release schedule and though I can understand, the reality is that the updates mean us building almost everything from scratch all over again and we simply did not want to rush the process and just come out with a half fast update that does not take advantage of the new 2.0 features to the fullest, we did not announce the final release date so as not to create a deadline that might cause compromises, but if all goes well they will all be ready before Black Friday